Dr. William Zinsmeister

Professor

E-mail: wjzins@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s): Atmosphere-Surface Interactions (ASI)

Education

Ph.D.- University of California, Riverside.

Research Interests

Paleontology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, biogeography, field geology.

Teaching Interests

EAS 115 Dinosaurs

EAS 151 OIL

EAS 473 Invertebrate Paleontology

Selected Publications

  • Fricker, C. and Zinsmeister, W. J. in press, Late Maastrichtian Gastropods from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Paleontological Research Institute Monograph Series, 350 page manuscript.

  • Zinsmeister, W.J. in press, Stratigrapbic Plane Analysis, A technique for analysis of biostratigraphic ranges. Proceedings of Antarctic Geoscience Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.

  • Zinsmeister, W. J. 2001. Late Maastrichtian Short-term Biotic Events on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula , Journal of Geology. Appeared March 2001, volume 109, no. 2, pp. 213-229.

  • Stilwell, J. D.,and Zinsmeister, W. J., 2000. Paleobiogeographic synthesis of the Eocene macrofauna from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in Stilwell J. D., and Feldmann, R. M., eds., Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica: American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series, v. 76. p. 365-372.